Newsbusters has a story on how Saddam Hussein wanted to "fool the U.S." and acquire nuclear weapons as soon as sanctions were lifted...just like we've been saying for five years.
On Sunday's "NBC Nightly News," correspondent Pete Williams previewed details of a new book, The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack, by Ronald Kessler, in which Kessler revealed information obtained by the an FBI agent who extensively interviewed Saddam Hussein and found, among other things, that the former Iraqi leader had deliberately tried to "fool the U.S." into believing he had weapons of mass destruction because "he wanted Iranian leaders to believe that he had nuclear and biological weapons." The FBI agent, named George Piro, also reported that Saddam Hussein "hoped the post-Gulf War sanctions on Iraq would dissolve, allowing him to pursue a nuclear capability."
Unless you are a leftwing kook (*cough*blubonnet*cough*), this isn't news. We--and most of the world--knew Saddam was a threat to his own people and to the region, if not beyond that. How many more stories like this have to come out before the left admits there were no lies about Saddam wanting nuclear weapons?
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